“Her throat was full, with a mole like a tiny cameo in its hollow.”
-Eudora Welty
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“Her throat was full, with a mole like a tiny cameo in its hollow.”
-Eudora Welty
“Teeth all awry and at all angles like fence.”
-George Garrett
“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use,
broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on the pavement.”
-Virginia Woolf
“The lamplight pulses like wounded honey through the seams
into the soft night, and there is laughter: but nobody else cares.”
-James Agee
“He flies around in stolen cars. Wherever he stops,
kids grow like gourds from women’s bellies.”
-Natalie Diaz
“A book as thin as a Ritz-Carlton sandwich.”
-Stephen Leacock
“A midfat, midlife, freckled woman, suitcase tugging at her hand like a small boy needing to pee”
-William H. Gass
“She emptied her mind, as if emptying a bottle, and waited for inspiration.”
-Mavis Gallant
“The boys, how eyeless
& how wordless they,
who cover themselves with smiles
like curlicues of feathers.”
-Federico García Lorca
The Simile Museum 